Eastern Carolina Exposition
To Be Held In Smithfield
Will Be Held April 13—18.
Delegation of Citizens
Carry Invitatio To Board
Of Directors.
TWO TOWNS CONSIDERED
The Board of Directors of the
Eastern Carolina Chamber of Com
merce in session at Kinston last Fri
day afternoon, selected Smithfield as
the place for holding the Eastern Ex
position next spring, April 13 to 18,
inclusive. Thousands of people at
tended the Exposition held in Kinston
last spring, and the event will long
be remembered in that section of
Eastern Carolina.
A delegation of Smithfield citizens
including Mayor J. A. Narron, T. C.
Young, who is a member of the Board
of Directors, E. L. Woodall, D. H.
Creech, and Jas. A. Wellons, went to
Kinston Friday in the interest of
landing the Exposition for this city.
Three towns, Rocky Mount, Wash
ington and Smithfield, were the most
active candidates, Smithfield carried
letters of invitation from the Cham
ber of Commerce, the Woman’s Club
and the Business and Professional
Women’s Club. Personal representa
tives from the town board and the
Kiwannis Club were on hand urging
Smithfield as the place. This evi
dence of the support of the com
munity together with the fact that
Smithfield is in the center of a thick
ly populated section probably influ
enced the selection of this city. It
was brought out that the urban popu
lation within a radius o fifty-five miles
of Rocky Mount is 87.000 people,
within the same radius of Washing
ton, 76,000 people, while Smithfield
has an urban population in the same
area of 126,000 people. Johnston
County ranks seventh in rural popu
lation, a fact that was taken into con
sideration.
The mayor of the town expects to
call a mass meeting of the citizens of
the town at an early date to consider
further plans for the coming event.
Thanksgiving Primary Classes
Entertained
Saturday afternoon at the home of
Miss Flossie Whitley, teacher of the
Children’s class, from three until
5:30 was a time of much pleasure to
the primary class of Thanksgiving
Sunday school. The Card class also
was invited with their teacher, Mrs.
W. Y. Wood. The Card class was one
hundred per cent present while twen
ty-three of the forty members of the
Children’s class were present.
After the games then came some
very interesting contests, the sack
race being the most interesting. Tal
mage Whitley, a member of the Chil
dren’s class, was the winner. Then
came the apple race in which each
contestant tried to roll the apple
with his nose. Several tried but found
that Robert O’Neal, Jr., had them
all beat. Both winners were awarded
prizes. Later a picture of each class
was made.
The departing hour came all too
soon but sunset just would not wait.
All are looking forward for the card
class to return the invitation.
—Reporter.
Zebulon, Route 1, Sept. 5.
Six Honest Serving-Men
“That boy can sak more questions
than any one can answer.” Ever
hear a father or a mother say that?
it is wearing to have questions put
to you by the hour as is usually the
case when the youngster reaches four
of five or six. But parents might
well remember Kipling’s verse:
“I had six honest serving-men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why
and When
And How and where and Who.”
Johnny, remember, doesn’t know
much about the world, but he s trying
to find out. When he is a bit older
and has gathered some information
he will pass out of the inquisitive
stage. Just now it is his most im
portant business in life and a habit
that is not to be discouraged. In
fact, the danger is that a little later
he’ll net ask enough questions. Above
COTTON COOPS SEE
GOOD SEASON AHEAD
Third Year Promises To Be
Most Successful Yet; $90
Advance On 500 Pound
Bale.
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OPERATING EXPENSE LESS
Raleigh, Sept. 8—Announcing that
everything is ready for the reception
of the 1924 crop, General Manager
Blalock of the North Carolina Cotton
Growers’ Cooperative Association
calls attention to the fact that the
Association has successfully finished
its second year. With a trained force
of workers and with the most modern
labor saving and economical office
machinery, the Association is pre
pared to make a considerable saving
in operating expense the coming sea
son. Lower insurance rates, lower
storage rates, some consessions in
the freight rates and a substantial
reduction in interest rates are among
the features. It is estimated that the
saving to the members of the Associa
tion in oeration expense will be close
to $2000,000.
The first year of operation the As
sociation handled over 135,000 bales
of cotton and averaged for its mem
bers slightly more than 25 cents a
pound. Approximately 10,000 bales
of the cotton received was old cotton
delivered by members who have join
ed the Association.
Reports for the second year show
that approximately 131,000 bales were
handled and that the total operating
expense by reason of selling direct to
consumer was very substantially re
duced. The members received 29
cents a pound net for Middling cot
tno—a very good price for the season
and in fact the second highest average
price in a period of over half a cen
tury. In the beginning of the seoson,
the management mapped out a pro
gram and followed it. A liberal ad
vance payment was made on delivery
another payment was made in Decem
ber, another in the early spring and
the final settlement in July. By this
program, the membership received
during the season, as they were in
need of it—the members received 70
per cent of the value of the cotton
before December 25.
Now in the opening of the third
! season, and in view of the fact that
several thousand new members have
joined during the summer months,
the management looks forward to a
successful season—the Association
will make an advance payment to all
members of $70 on every bale weigh
ing 500 pounds and over with slight
: ly reduced advances on lighter bales.
The Association has arranged with
the North Carolina Agricultural
i Credit Corporation for marketing
' loans on all cotton of the members,
these loans to be made at the time
! of delivery and at a very low interest
rate. These marketing loans on bales
weighing 500 pounds and over are
set at $20 a bale—by this arrange
ment members can secure $90 on
every 500-pound bale if desired on
delivery.
Married Girl 11 Years Old
Danville, Va., Sept. 5.—John Phelps
aged 25, held by the Halifax author
ities for the Chesterfield county
police was returned last night to that
county by A. T. Traylor, sheriff of
Chesterfield, to answer c\ »n-es
which, he said would be preferred
against him. With him went Louise
Mays aged 11 years to whom Phelps
was married last Friday at Yaneey
ville, N. C. A discrepancy as to the
girl’s age has arisen, the father
claiming she is 11 years old while
the girl claims she is 15. According
to the officer who called at Sbuth
Boston for the couple, they have been
away from their homes for several
weeks.
all, don’t try to stop hirn by using
sarcasm; that is a sin against child
hood.—From The Milwaukee Journal.
PROPOSED SHORT CUT HIGHWAY
FATAL AUTO ACCIDENT NEAR
BENSON
Benson, Sept. 8—Dewey Loftin, 25,
, is dead and Earl Hedrick is in an
unconscious condition from injuries
sustained in an automobile collision
which happened north of the ceme
tery here on the Benson-Four Oaks
| load Thursday night. They had just
i rounded a sharp curve at the ceme
tery and were going north when they
collided with a car driven by Festus
Hall, of Four Oaks. Details of how
the accident occurred are lacking but
i tis possible that Loftin and Hed
rick were blinded by the lights of
Hall’s car.
The injured men were brough to
Dr. Parker’s office at Benson, Loftin,
who had suffered a serious fracture
at the base of the brain, died a few
1 minutes after being brought to town.
Though Hedrick is still in an un
conscious condition, his chances for
recovery are said to be good. The
body of Loftin was prepared for
l urial by a local undertaking estab
lishment and was shipped to his
former home in Virgilina, Va. His
relatives reside in Leaksville. He had
been in the employ of the Hedrick
Construction Co., who are paving the
streets here for about six weeks. He
had formerly served in the U. S.
Marines.
HOW TO START THE DAY
Thank God every morning when
you get up that you have something
to do that day which must be done
whether you like it or not. Being forc
ed to work, and forced to do youi
best, will breed in you temperance
and self-control, diligence and
MRS. HOWARD STEPHENSON
DEAD
Sunday, September T, marked the
i close of the life of an estimable young
j woman, Mrs. Howard Stephenson, who
| died at the Smithfield Memorial Hos
i pital here Sunday afternoon about
two o’clock. She had been sick only
a short while. She was quite a young
woman, having recently passed her
twenty-third birthday and it Is hard
to understand why she was taken
away so early m life.
None but those who have sat m the
shadow of a great bereavement can
justly weigh such a sorrow as this.
Those who have gone down into the
valley know that such anguish can
not find solace in the tenderest words.
She who has gone forth could not be
supported by any earthly friend.
The funeral services were conduct
ed yesterday afternoon at Clement
church by Rev. R. L. Gay, assisted
by Elder Jesse Barnes, and the re
mains wTere tenderly laid to rest In
the cemetery at the church. She is
survived by a husband and small m- !
fant, also by a father and mother and
several brothers and sisters.
Before her marriage nearly two I
years ago, Mrs. Stephenson was Miss j
Callie Lassiter, eldest daughter of |
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Lassiter who five'
near here. She was a young woman
of pleasing personality and had a
circle of friends who will be grieved
to hear of her untimely death.
The sympathy of the entire com
munity is extended to the bereaved
ones.
strength of will, cheerfulness and
content, and a hundred virtues which
the idle will never know.—Charles ;
Kingsley.
HIGHWAY BOOSTERS
TO STOP IN COUNTY
Will Make Tour of Short
• Route From Wilson Thru]
The Carolinas.
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SERVE LUNCHEON HERE
Starting from the court house in
Wilson on Wednesday, September 10,
at 9:30 o’clock will begin a two-day
journey over the territory down the
Coast Line Railroad between that
point and Florence, S. C. in the inter
est of the new proposed short-cut
which will save for tourists and oth
ers using the route more than 100
miles in the Carolinas. In the party
of 50 or more will be some of the
best orators of Eastern Carolina. A
mass meeting of about thirty minutes
will be held at Kenly, Lucama, Selma,
Smithfield, Four Oaks, Benson, Dunn,
Godwin, Fayetteville, St. Pauls, Lum
berton and points south.
The first day’s tour will include
Wilson to Lumberton, stopping at
Smithfield for lunch which is given
the Booster party by the Kiwanis
Club of Smithfield.
The accompanying cpt shows the
proposed route from Richmond, Va.,
to Miami, Fla. Nearly 300 miles are
saved by traveling this route.
The promoters behind this move
ment are very anxious that all citi
zens attend the mass meetings to be
held nearest to them. The first meet
ing in Johnston County will be held
at Kenly Wednesday at about ten
a.m., at 10:45, Selma at 11:30, Smith
field at 12 noon, at Four Oaks at 1:30,
Benson at 2:30. The idea is to let
everybody know what the plans are
and to get the full support and co
operation of everybody interested.
[ John A. Oates, of Fayetteville, is
'chairman of this Booster Committee
[ and will be in charge of the party.
| Mr. T. P. Young is president of the
i organization working to locate this
route, and has been active in the
plans.
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Three Things to Remember
1. To bring a notebook and a pencil
to the convention. “A notebook has
•» good memory.”
2. To be on time at each session.
The sessions will begin promptly at
the time given on the program.
3w That a pennant will be presented
to tbe Sunday School having in the
convention the largest number of rep
resentatives, sixteen years and over,
according to the number of miles
traveled- Records will be taken at
each session of the convention. The
pennant will be presented at the close
of the session on Wednesday after
noon.
L. T. Royall,
County President.
Corina Sanders,
County Secretary.
Tom Tarheel says that the new
coat of paint on his barn looks bet
ter than the old soothing syrup
Mgn put there before he named his
farm.
Mff FLIERS LAND I
ON U. SJOIL AGAIN
Boston Welcomes Aviators
Who Have Virtually Cir
cled The Globe For The
First Time.
STARTED 5 MONTHS AGO
Boston, Sept. 6-—Six army airmen
entered upon the last stage of their
journey around the world by airplane
when they arrived today in Boston,
their first objective on the Atlantic
coast of th eUnited States. The big
cruiser planes, completing a 125-mile
jump from Mere Point, Me., where
they were forced down by fog yester
day, dropped t otheir moorings in
Boston harbor five months, to a day,
after the fliers hopped northward
from Seattle in April.
In these months Lieutenant Lowell
H. Smith, commander of the flight,
with Lieutenant Leslie P. Arnold, in
the flagplane Chicago and Lieutenant
Eric H. Nelson, with his mechanician
Lieutenant John Harding, Jr., in the
plane New Orleans, having flown 23,
000 miles. The flight, taking them
from America’s west coast around the
world, through the tropics and the far
north to the American east coast,
wras regarded by army officials as
having virtually attained today its
object, the circumnavigation of the
globe by air—for the first time in
human history.
Great Throng Welcomes Them
There remains now only the trans
continental journey, no longer ac
counted a remarkable feat in aviation.
Of the four planes that hopped oflf
five months ago, two have seen mis
haps. Of the four planes that hop
ped off, only two reached Boston.
The original flagplane was wrecked
in a crash against a mountain in
Alaska in a fog. Her crew escaped.
Another plane, the Boston, was
wrecked when engine trouble forced
it down in the Atlantic between Scot
land and Iceland. Lieutenant Leigh
Wade, pilot, and Lieutenant A. M.
Ogden, mechanician, resumed the
flight in the Boston II, from Pictou,
N. S.
Today a great throng at the Boston
airport and a delegation of high rank
ing army officials rendered tribute to
| the arriving airmen. The fliers were
greeted with the national salute of 21 .
1
: guns.
I Then the great crowd of 75,000 at
j the airport fell silent and stood un
i covered as a band played the national
anthem and later “Home, Sweet
Home.”
The fliers were met far up the
■ Maine coast by Major General Mason
M. Patrick, chief of the air service,
and Assistant Secretary of War
Dwight F. Davis, with 12 planes.
They reached Boston just before 2
o’clock daylight saving time and
alighted 10 minutes later, taking
easily to buoys where they moored.
A luanch put out to meet the planes,
and the aviators were brought to the
official reception barge where high
officials of the army, navy, city and
state were drawn up in line to receive
them.—Associated Press.
GOLDSBORO MEN ARE
SENTENCED BY COURT
Goldsboro, Aug. 27.—Fitz Hugh
Lane and Luther Sullivan, young
white men of Goldsboro, charged
with false imprisonment, aiding
and abetting in prostitution and as
| sault upon the person of Alice Rose,
i Princeton girl, were today dismissed
I upon two charges false imprison
ment and assault, but upon the
! charge of first degree prostitution
i Lane was given eighteen months and
I Sullivan two years. The jury left
the courtroom at two thirty o’clock
and returned at five o’clock with its
verdict.
The case was one of the hardest
fought in this term of court and dur
ing its trial the courtroom was fill
ed to overflowing with spectators.
The best of a book is not the
thought which it contains, but the
thought it suggests; just as the
charm of music dwells not in the
tones, but in the echos of our hearts.